postcard design
Posted: Tuesday,17th December, 2013 Filed under: graphic design, photography, typography | Tags: design, photography, postcard, typography 1 Comment
A postcard I designed to post out to friends and family. I decided to make the text “cheesy postcard style” which I enjoyed creating. I am also riding my bike wearing a dress that designed and sewed.
The secret with the text was the selection tool to get space inside the type and deleting the inverse from photographs. These shapes of photograph are in layers behind the black text. I also used the selection and expand options to apply a white edge on the inside and the outside of the text. This was the most time consuming part of the process.
This was a fun, simple project which only took me an hour from start to print!
Album Covers
Posted: Monday,23rd April, 2012 Filed under: digital illustration, graphic design, photography, Project, typography | Tags: album, art, cover, design, digital illustration, DJ, gimp, internet images, internet logo, music, original, photography, portable music device, quick design, scan logo, screen shots, typography 1 CommentToday I have been organising my portable music device. The main reason was to have new music and to make sure each song had a cover, as a visual person it is easier for me to store a visual database and and aural database. There were some songs/DJs/albums that just did not have a cover – or not one worth putting on a portable music device.
I designed some covers based off a quick google image search to find a picture that I liked and sometimes I grabbed a logo. Some were created from my own photography or digital illustration. Here is the few that I made.
Original photography
from an internet image
From internet image
from original digital illustration
from original photography and logo scan
from original photography and logo scan
from internet image and internet logo
from internet image
from internet image
from internet image and internet logo
These were all created in GiMP with each cover taking no more than 10 minutes to create.
(I will come back and put links/credits to the original internet images)
old wallpapers
Posted: Monday,16th April, 2012 Filed under: graphic design, photography | Tags: 1024 x 768, fractal, layers, original, photography, photoshop, typography, vector illustration, wall paper Leave a commentPutting this old wallpaper on here made me open the folder full of these old but still lovely wallpapers. These are all mostly made with photographs that I have taken or fractals I generated and multiple layers in photoshop.
The caption is the name of the wallpaper and also the foundation of what made it.
Bollywood - two fractals
bush gerl - photo relection
digital desert - photograph
skylight very funky - photograph reflected
mega energy bonus pack - fractal
my light energy - photograph and vector
eerie - photograph
portal tunnel - fractal
power within - two photographs
psy psy - two fractals
self portrait of duel personalities - unedited photograph
sun of an arvo - photograph
we spoilt it - unedited photograph with text
Sunset East Point Darwin
Posted: Monday,16th April, 2012 Filed under: MiSC | Tags: 1024 x 768, photograph, typography, wallpaper Leave a commentI have just been uploading the best Darwin photographs to my brand new flickr account. On top of this I added the absolute best four to my kassandraphotography blog.
It makes me want to add this addition to one of the photographs to my design blog.
Original photograph with some added text.
website wallpapers
Posted: Thursday,2nd June, 2011 Filed under: MiSC, typography | Tags: black, brushed, creating, dreamweaver, illustrator, links, organising, original, programs, project, screenshot, to-do list, typography, university, update, wall paper, website, white Leave a commentFrom my Archive: 2007
When I was studying at university there was a to-do list that went on forever. Since I was studying computer-based art and design I have some useful skills up my sleeve and I spent heaps of time on my computer. It made sense to have a digital to-do list. I managed to “dig up” a few of these website wallpapers I made to combat the list:
website wallpaper example
website wallpaper example 2
These website wallpapers comprised of:
- whatever image I was fascinated with for the week or I made my own to fascinate myself for the next week
- links to programs most often used
- links to exact files stored on my hard drive (saved so much time)
- step by step to-do list for every class
- whichever typeface fascinated me the most at the time (the two examples I found use Brushed)
I updated these every other day to cross out things and made a whole new one most weekends. Sometimes I started with a table for each day sometimes it was grouped into classes.
These website wall papers were a great way to continue developing my HTML website making skill set and by using Window’s active desktop setting I made something that was easier to navigate then my operating system.
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